Special Detective (Ashton-Kirk)

Ashton‑Kirk is a gentleman of means who has turned his keen intellect toward the shadows that confound ordinary police work. Comfortable in his study, pipe in hand, he moves from one puzzling murder to diplomatic crises with a calm, analytical precision. The series has already shown him untangling the murder of a numismatist and averting a war, establishing him as a resourceful, almost uncanny investigator.

In this new adventure an old friend summons him into a maze of international finance and family secrets. The Campe lineage, once Bavarian brewers turned Mexican financiers, has become entangled in recent, inexplicable events that threaten lives on both sides of the Atlantic. As the detective delves into archives, bank records, and whispered rumors, he must piece together motives before the looming peril becomes fatal.